Comments on: Why you shouldn’t rely on auto white balance

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:45:28 +0000

What about using a white balance card?

By: The Evening Brew (3.27.09) at Essential Photo Gear

The Evening Brew (3.27.09) at Essential Photo Gear — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:01:23 +0000

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By: professional photo retouching

professional photo retouching — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:42:51 +0000

every now and then you need to be reminded about the basics. Nice simple advice for improving photos

By: Steve Berardi

Steve Berardi — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:49:46 +0000

@Jochem – when shooting in RAW, there’s no reason to worry about white balance when you’re pressing the shutter, but you should always double check it later when post-processing (like you suggested with lightroom or aperture)..

sometimes its difficult to tell if a photo is too warm or cold, especially when you’re looking at hundreds of photos after a long day

By: Jochem

Jochem — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:12:46 +0000

When shooting in RAW, is it really neccesary to worry about white balance? With RAW software (like lightroom and aperture) you can easilly use an eyedropper to pick an grey or white area to determine the perfect whitebalance in seconds?

By: Johannes Lochmann

Johannes Lochmann — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:27:40 +0000

…and what helps even more is setting the white balance to manual (pre on most Nikons, i guess) and using that all the time. In my experience this is the only way to get consistant results.

By: Janice

Janice — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:17:38 +0000

I am a above average amateur photographer wanting more knowledge. You have helped me learn….thank you.

By: Richard Davidian

Richard Davidian — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:36:07 +0000

I enjoyed this post immensely. I’ll no longer rely exclusively on automatic white balance.